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Chrysler PT Cruiser: My mother has a 2001 Pt cruiser. It has

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My mother has a 2001 Pt cruiser. It has approx. 70k miles. I was driving at approximately 10 miles an hour when the timing belt broke. Having a tough time finding a mechanic who wants to work on the car. Most automatically say engine is probably gone or will charge as much as 500.00 just to determine if engine is gone. Does this sound accurate. My mom really wants to keep her car.

Unfortunately this has what is called an interference engine. That means that if the belt breaks, the valves can hit the pistons and bend the valves so the head would need to be rebuilt.

It is possible that it didnt bend the valves because it was only 10 MPH but they would have to replace the timing belt to find out, or remove the head. It costs about $500 to replace the belt.

Unfortunately it is expensive to rebuild the head but it has low miles so it would be worth it.

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